Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)

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[2/3] the country. But since there is no requirement to demonstrate that is true, the Secretary of State could fabricate anything. The result is a totally arbitrary non-process which can be used at any time against any non-citizen. A Secretary of State could print up form letters with duplicated signatures with a blank for adding the target's name. Requiring "due process of law" is the method used by US law to make the government demonstrate grounds for decisions that deny a person's

[3/3] rights. But a proclamation by an official is no proof, and citing it is no real process. If courts accept that as satisfying the requirement for "due process", due process becomes a sham and a pretense.

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#perse

*US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported [solely] for his views.* (I believe this was the specially selected judge for whom they sent Khalil to Louisiana instead of holding the hearing near New York.) This ruling is worse than it purports to be. Supposedly the Secretary of State can deport any non-citizen who perse claims is somehow harmful to

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-court-ruling

*I disagree with Mahmoud Khalil’s politics. But the deportation decision is abhorrent.*

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/12/mahmoud-khalil-immigration-hearing-deportation-trump/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully

Mahmoud Khalil's continuing legal struggle against being deported, perhaps for his political views or for no known reason at all, is complex since two parallel court systems are working on it. It is impossible to predict the outcome, except that it's clear that the bully is out to get him.

[2/3] persecutor abruptly canceled this permission to work. That could deny them access to their bank accounts and pensions. This is gratuitous cruelty. If a country is no longer suffering from chaos or repression, its refugees may no longer be entitled to temporary protected status. But it is gratuitous cruelty to rush them to leave quickly. TPS has an expiration date, so why not let them stay that while so they can return home with a good plan? That is assuming that a country's situation

[3/3] has improved enough to end TPS for its refugees. As far as I have heard, nothing has improved in Cuba, Haiti or Venezuela. The persecutor is piling one gratuitous cruelty on another on another. With the persecutor, it's cruelties all the way down.

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/social-security-canceled-immigrants
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump

The persecutor has listed 6,000 immigrants as dead to inactivate their social security numbers. How is it that these immigrants have social security numbers? Because Biden gave them temporary protected status because of chaos or repression in their home countries, and that includes permission to work in the US - therefore, social security numbers. The

[2/2] people that the saboteur despises, which includes "useless" non-rich aged or disabled people, he is very persistent. He might decide to try it again some months from now, perhaps in a slightly different way. He might simply hire so few operators that one must wait a week for actual service -- or have a bullshit generator respond.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#s-i-c
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/retirees-welcome-news-that-ssa-phone-services-will-remain-available-to-the-public
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur
https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ArtificialIntelligance

Public pressure made the saboteur in chief climb down from the plan to close the Social Security Administration's service-by-phone system. That doesn't mean the problem is gone for good. When it comes to hurting

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-crackdown-free-speech
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/joe-mccarthy-mccarthyism-donald-trump-clay-risen-red-scare

The persecutor's repression of protesters is more rigid than McCarthyism's persecution of suspected Communists in the 1950s. More comparison between the two.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://theonion.com/trump-boasts-about-strong-arming-trump-into-pausing-tariffs/

(satire) *[The bully] Boasts About Strong-Arming [the saboteur in chief] Into Pausing Tariffs.* If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/10/de-extincted-dire-wolf-hype-breakthrough-grey-wolves

The announcement about "resurrected dire wolves" was more hype than reality. They made genetically modified wolves with around 20 pieces of their DNA copied from fossil dire wolves. At least, that is what they say they have done. There is no report of independent verification of what they have actually done.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

The application of political retaliation was part of Clearview AI's initial sales pitch.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/nils-pratley-on-finance/2025/apr/10/weve-been-spared-financial-armageddon-but-trumps-tariff-chaos-is-far-from-over

The wrecker's last-minute change of tariff plans avoided big problems (until he changes the plan again), but the uncertainty he has already caused will continue causing economic damage.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#s-i-c
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-gun-violence-federal-programs
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#magat

The saboteur in chief has cancelled funds for various research projects about preventing *gun violence, sexual violence, domestic terrorist attacks and violent hate crimes.* This must be to please the gun fanatics among the magats.

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https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/04/new-york-kidnapping-club-redux/#more-120528

The wrecker's deportation squads defy the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution by imprisoning and deporting people without due process of law.

[2/2] US. I find that natural. He is a right-wing extremist, and they are among his supporters. Some of their acts of terror helped build his support. Howsoever an effort to prevent such terrorism might operate, its success would work against him. He has already told the FBI to stop focusing on right-wing terrorism. Ending the research too is the sort of long-term completeness that his cunning Project 2025 advisors would think of.